Trump's reckless rampage quickens Rapture
... The impeachment-fearing president - a permanent foreign policy novice - proudly understands nothing about the region, its politics, or its religions.
That means that like Bush before him, Trump remains susceptible to manipulation from top advisers who have larger plans. Just as Bush got steered down the road of Iraqi ruin by Dick Cheney, who kept one eye on his Halliburton stock, as well as a flock of neoconservatives who remained committed to their decades-long plot of Iraqi regime change, Trump's advisers on Iran include key players like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence.
Both believe there is a battle between good and evil that will end with the "Rapture" - following an apocalyptic war in the Middle East, Jesus Christ will return to Israel, bestowing eternal redemption to Christians, who will be "raptured" or ascended, into heaven...
If extremists like Pompeo and Pence want Trump to create chaos in the Middle East in order to quicken the Rapture, they ought to just say so and let swing state voters this year decide if that's America's best path forward.
https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-reckless-middle-east-rampage-makes-mad-bushs-rush-to-war-look-thoughtful-11906088
Turbineguy
(37,213 posts)He'll make God do what they want.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)And leave the rest of us to clean up after.
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)I think many of those like Pence and Pompeo may be surprised when they get to "heaven" and find that they are going to be judged by what they did for humanity, not what they did for religion.
I left organized religion many years ago because I recognized that it was being taken over by right wing nut jobs who did not really know what Jesus would do, they just wanted it to be what they wanted Jesus to do.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Do such people truly believe in what they say?
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)If so, I think they have convinced themselves that they are the only "true believers", but in fact they know they are not.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)that in fact they know they are not.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)dugog55
(296 posts)Paka
(2,760 posts)I knew the "rapture" didn't exist in the Bible, but I didn't know the details on how it crept into evangelical thinking.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,112 posts)It says what I understand about the rapture. It was never part of Christian theology till John Nelson Darby invented it in the 19th century.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Just wow.
You got it.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,112 posts)Most of the radical Islamists don't live in this country.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)czarjak
(11,197 posts)Jesus just needs a liddle nudge?
lees1975
(3,726 posts)There are many Evangelicals who believe that the United States is playing a God-assigned role in the protection of Israel to bring about the "Rapture," an event which is not actually mentioned in the Bible at all. The view that Israel has a role to play in the rapture, and subsequently the second coming of Christ, is based on a faulty interpretation of the New Testament scriptures related to prophecy that requires some deviation from accepted methods and standards of interpretation of the Bible. Trump's lifestyle is proof that he couldn't care less about the Bible, he's just schmoozing for votes.
But then, there's the oil. Saudi Arabia has lots of it, and lies south of the Persian gulf, directly across from Iran. Iraq also has lots of it. And so does Iran. The US has finally shaken off its dependence on foreign oil but the more we can import from the middle east, the less of our own reserves have to be used. And there's nice profit in it.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)He's just a useful idiot. Talking about making a deal with the Devil. (give us prayer in public schools, vouchers for christian schools, outlaw abortion, outlaw homosexuals, make Christianity the state religion, and we'll keep supporting and voting for you )
RussBLib
(8,985 posts)But he also knows that religion is a powerful weapon to sway a large segment of the population, and he uses it regularly. I'm sure he is rolling his (closed) eyes and smirking every time all them good Christians come and lay their hands on him and pray all over him.
Amen to the heathen bastard.